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Message-Id: <9bc623ed14f83e2facf5ada94405d39c2a7be3fd.1448283890.git.jslaby@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:12:20 +0100
From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To: stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
Tim Kryger <tim.kryger@...il.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 59/72] serial: 8250_dw: Fix deadlock in LCR workaround
From: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
===============
commit 7fd6f640f2dd17dac6ddd6702c378cb0bb9cfa11 upstream.
Trying to write console output from within the serial console driver
while the port->lock is held causes recursive deadlock:
CPU 0
spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock)
printk()
console_unlock()
call_console_drivers()
serial8250_console_write()
spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock)
** DEADLOCK **
The 8250_dw i/o accessors try to write a console error message if the
LCR workaround was unsuccessful. When the port->lock is already held
(eg., when called from serial8250_set_termios()), this deadlocks.
Make the error message a FIXME until a general solution is devised.
Cc: Tim Kryger <tim.kryger@...il.com>
Reported-by: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
index 70ecf541b77a..1831a138480c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
@@ -101,7 +101,10 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out(struct uart_port *p, int offset, int value)
dw8250_force_idle(p);
writeb(value, p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));
}
- dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
+ /*
+ * FIXME: this deadlocks if port->lock is already held
+ * dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
+ */
}
}
@@ -138,7 +141,10 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out32(struct uart_port *p, int offset, int value)
dw8250_force_idle(p);
writel(value, p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));
}
- dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
+ /*
+ * FIXME: this deadlocks if port->lock is already held
+ * dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
+ */
}
}
--
2.6.3
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